Hematuria without chyluria: It could still be due to filarial etiology

From red to white urine: a patient's nightmare with a rather benign outcome

BACKGROUND Chyluria is a medical condition with presence of chyle in the urine. The disease is most prevalent in endemic regions of Africa and the Indian subcontinent where it is mostly caused by parasitic infections, particularly lymphatic filariasis due to wucheria bancrofti. Non-parasitic chyluria, however, is a very rare finding. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 48 year old woman...

A Case Report of Chyluria with Proteinuria - Filarial origin ?

Filarial infections are common in most tropical and subtropical regions of the world. We report a case of chyluria due to lymphourinary fistula in a filarial antigen negative case, the diagnosis of which was confirmed by the demonstration of microfilariae in urine as well as in peripheral blood only after diethyl carbamazine (DEC) provocation test. So In endemic areas, workup of filarial infect...

Chyluria due to lymphatic filariasis: case report and review.

Filarial chyluria as a rare cause of urinary retention.

We herein describe a case of Wuchereria bancrofti infection in a previously healthy 37-year-old Nepalese man. The patient presented with a history of milky urine with subsequent acute urinary retention lasting for a few days. The presence of microfilariae was confirmed on both peripheral blood and urine smears obtained at midnight. He was conservatively treated with diethylcarbamazine combined ...

Some Remarks on the Relation of Filaria Sanguinis Hominis to Chyluria and Other Lymphoid Diseases

By Surgeon G. C. Roy, M.IX, F.R.C.S., Civil Surgeon, Beerbhoom. Chyluria is essentially a tropical disease. An analysis of the cases recorded in the Lancet will show that the subjects of it were, at one time 01* other of their lives, residents in a tropical climate, whence they probably carried with thein the germ of the disease. Even in the tropics its occurrence however is not frequent, inasm...